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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
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"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."

"I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be."

"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record."

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."

"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."

"My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind."

"I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die."
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